U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these …-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the copyright holder has an incentive to charge super-monopoly prices, thereby … encouraging piracy among low-value buyers. Extending enforcement down the demand curve broadens the copyright holder s captive …

This paper examines two rules concerning translation right as a part of copyright - the existing rule which gives an … author or a copyright owner control over the translation of his works and a new rule that removes the translation right from … the copyright owner. It adopts the approach of Gordon (1992) and evaluates these rules using the concept of asymmetric …

limitation of intellectual property rights does exist, but that efficient copyright protection must also be above a minimum level … of protection. Furthermore, it is argued that even optimum copyright protection will not produce a first best solution …

More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these …-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the copyright holder has an incentive to charge super-monopoly prices, thereby … encouraging piracy among low-value buyers. Extending enforcement down the demand curve broadens the copyright holder's captive …